AQF Training
🏷️ FREE event for certified agents, £135 for non-certified agents
🎧 Agents
📍 Online
Course Outline:
Our termly Safeguarding and Legal Update is an interactive briefing designed to keep educational agents fully informed about the latest developments shaping compliance, risk management, and best practice across the sector. Each session distils emerging guidance, legislative changes, and evolving safeguarding expectations into clear, practical insight, ensuring agents remain confident, up‑to‑date, and equipped to support schools and learners effectively. With opportunities for discussion, this session provides a focused space to stay ahead of key responsibilities and upcoming changes.
Achieve the BSA/BAISIS Agent Academy AQF Training Certificate and build the specialist knowledge you need to work effectively with British boarding schools. The certificate covers:
- the UK boarding-school sector
- supporting international pupils
- choosing the right school for each child
- ethical and professional agent practice
- safeguarding and student welfare
- UKVI and the Child Student route
- building effective, long-term relationships with schools.
The certificate is open to all education agents / consultants and is designed to support good practice in line with the AQF and National Code. This training certifies individuals not organisations and can be shared with schools as evidence of meeting AQF standards – register here!
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Following the attendance of this training, an AQF Training Certificate of Completion will be issued.
This event will be held jointly with:
Speakers
Kate Hollyer, Director of BSA Legal
Kate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years.
Her work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s, immigration compliance is safeguarding, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career.
Kate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.
Gaelle Sullivan, Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA
Gaelle is Director of Research, Inclusion and IELA and joined the BSA in January 2023. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked in a range of state and independent schools. She is a qualified SENCO and holds a Masters Degree in Inclusive Education. Prior to joining the BSA, Gaelle was Deputy Head Pastoral, DSL and Head of Boarding at an all-girls independent school in the South-East.
